Also notes by John McGivering on
"The Prairie", and
"The Recall". We have also published some additions by George Kieffer to Sharad Keskar's notes on Kim, to explain the many Masonic references in the tale.

We have also just published the 48 "Uncollected Speeches" edited by Thomas Pinney for his collection A Second Book of Words (ELT Press 2008).

We have also recently published the 56 Uncollected Sketches 1884-88 written for the Civil snd Military Gazette and edited by Thomas Pinney for Kipling's India (Papermac, 1986). These include many notable articles, including Kipling's accounts of the meeting between the Viceroy and the Amir of Afghanistan, his report on Lahore city during the Mohurrum festival, his vivid descriptions of fever and sleeplessness during the hot season, and his prophetic speculations, as early as 1887, prompted by the developemt of dirigible airships, on the possibilities of air power in warfare.

On the 'For Members' pages of the site we have published the first twenty-four years of extracts from Carrie Kipling's diaries (1892-1915), as recorded by Charles Carrington, with explanatory notes by Alastair Wilson. We are now also covering the extracts made earlier by Douglad Rees. Work on the later years up to 1935 is in progress.

Click on 'For Members' on the Home page of this site, enter your username and password, and you will find a link to the diary extracts in the sidebar.

Click here for the index to the diaries, which Alastair Wilson is compiling as we go along.

We have also recently published an article by David Richards from Fine Books &
Collections, on 'Kipling and the Bhoys at Yale' in which in 1896 RK explains in a poem
"Mulvaney's Regrets", that he is unable to accept an invitation to a Yale Dinner in his honour.

Peter Havholm has continued his review of our notes on Limits and Renewals, with some critical suggestions and additions to George Engle's entry on "The Church that was at Antioch".

As part of our continuing efforts to complete the annotation of the verse, Philip Holberton has added some further points to Alan Underwood's notes on the Chapter Headings of the two Jungle Books. These are to be found at the head of the notes on the text of each tale.

Also notes by Alastair Wilson on "The Three-Decker", together with the text of the poem, and notes by John Radcliffe and John McGivering on "En-dor", Kipling's stern warning against spiritualism in 1919.

The three prize-winning essays in the John Slater Memorial Essay Prize competition for 2011, by Rachel Lewis, Muhammad Ibrahim Bhatti, and Greshan Rasiah. The prizes were awarded by the President of the Society, Field Marshal Sir John Chapple on May 4th 2011.

The following thirty-eight stories and articles are uncollected save for their appearance in the Sussex Edition (and in the Unites States, the Burwash Edition). Because they are comparatively inaccessible to the general reader, we are publishing the full text of these works on this site together with the notes, and the associated poems.

A symposium on Kipling's four years in America after his marriage to Caroline Balestier, was held at Marlboro College near Brattleboro Vermont, on October 7th 2013. Click here for details.

Rudyard Kipling: an international writer

A very successful international conference at London University on was held on October 21st and 22nd 2011. Click here for a list of the papers presented, with links to abstracts. The Conference was organised by the School of English at the University of Kent, and directed by Dr Jan Montefiore, and sponsored by the Kipling Society.

The Kent Conference

An earlier international conference at the University of Kent on Kipling studies was held on September 7th and 8th 2007. Click here for a list of the papers presented, with links to abstracts; papers shown in red are available in full. The Conference was organised by the School of English to mark the centenary of Kipling's Nobel Prize for Literature. It was directed by Dr Jan Montefiore, author of the recent study of Kipling's writings, and sponsored by the Kipling Society.

We have developed a system through which you can search for themes and people in Kipling's works. Click here

This is not an attempt to define or pigeon-hole particular stories, but rather to give readers the chance of seeing where particular themes or references crop up in his work.

In our discussions about this system we have frequently struck issues which are not easy to resolve, and have concluded with the hope that readers will come back to us with comments and refinements. Please send any comments to the NRG Project Group via johnrad@btinternet.com

We have also recently published extended notes by Leonee Ormond on Chapter IX of 'Captains Courageous' incorporating a good deal of technical detail from John Reading in the United States on Harvey Cheyne's epic rail journey across America from San Diego to Boston.

Thanks largely to a massive scanning effort by David Page, helped by Stephen Piper, we have completed the task of making the entire run of over 300 Kipling Journal back-numbers up to two years ago available to users of the NRG who are also members of the Society. The full run, apart from the last eight issues, is now up on this site together with a search system which enables one to search the full text for a word or phrase. See details below.

This work has involved reviewing the entries in Harbord's Readers' Guide to the Works of Rudyard Kipling (the 'Old Readers' Guide' or ORG), updating and extending them, and in many cases creating new notes. Click here for details of the background to the project.

We are indexing the notes on the verse by titles, first lines, collections, and in date order. We plan to include a good deal of material which has only previously been published in the Harbord Guide (the ORG) The current Index is available arranged by alphabetically by title, or by first line.

To help readers find their way through the verse, we have published lists of the stories in each collection, giving titles and first lines.

There is a section of the Guide for each story, poem, and other work. To find the stories you can click on The stories listed in the red sidebar on the left (or from the links below), which is an alphabetical list of all the stories.

Those stories for which we have an entry are in red, and if you click on them this will take you to the entry. In most cases there is an introductory page, from which you can jump to detailed notes on the text. You can also find stories via The stories in their collections in the sidebar - or from the links below.

Wherever you are in the Guide, a click on the grey and red Readers' Guide logo in the top left hand corner will take you back to this page. A click on the Elephant's head (Ganesha) logo at the top of the sidebar will take you back to the Home-page for the site.